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Can we have more folder options like custom folders or sub-folders to add to Computer Backup?
Right now, the automated backup option in Dropbox allows me to sync my Documents, Desktop and Downloads folders. By far the biggest - and most important - folder on my computer is the Music folder though. I can imagine for other people it's Pictures. Could we have a way to automatically backup those folders too?
To be really ambitious: would we be able to clone our computer on Dropbox? I used to have an Apple Time Machine that allowed you to do just that. If your computer broke down or was stolen, you could buy a new one, let it download the clone, including not just your documents but your applications and presets too, and you'd be good to go!
Please let Dropbox be the new Time Machine.
- Emma
Community Manager
Status changed:Gathering SupporttoInvestigating For me, its my ~/Developer folder. I don't use the desktop (clean) or documnet (icloud instead) or download (junks from the internet) which are the defaults now.
There's a way to do this on Windows, I wrote a detailed and easy to follow tutorial on it but forum moderator(s) took it down.
acebankcard Is it the trick using symlinks? I read Dropbox doesn't follow dymlinks anymore.
That's correct, it doesn't (and it never fully supported those in the first place). And, doing the symlinks in reverse (target inside one of the supported folders, link in an arbitrary loaction) defeats the purpose of the entire exercise, and causes additional headaches (at least in Windows). Long story short, there is no way to productively use the feature in many cases. That's what we call a "misfeature"…
For me being able to back up just the pictures and videos folders would be amazing. Those are currently just used to store pictures from vacations in the past and while I back them up to an external hard drive for safekeeping having them in dropbox would be another layer of not losing precious memories.
Also for me the contents of those doesn't change much except for large additions once every few months (though none lately).
For Dropbox Backup I suggest the option to backup also other subfolders, like Pictures, Music and Public from the user's home folder.
Currently one can only select the folders Desktop, Documents and Downloads.
Please add the option to choose which folder to backup... I should have gone with the Test Version first. This backup ist pretty useless this way.
Please give us the ability to backup the folders we want to be backed up.
The current backup functionality doesn't make sense to me personally.
